ideas of manipulatives to use for teaching fractions
- Hershey bars
- bag of beans
- egg carton and ping pong balls
- Rainbow Twizzlers
- Number Pieces app- has Base Ten Blocks
- Using two paper plates of different colors, make one cut to the center in each. Overlap the two paper plates using the slits you just cut. Turn the plates to show different fractions of a whole. You can also mark sections of the plates to show different fractions. (Here's a Pinterest link to the idea - http://www.pinterest.com/pin/287597126176963681/
- M&Ms, Fruit loops. Measuring cups and spoons, students measure out ingredients for a blender smoothie -some taste better than others.